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<h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1>

<p>HTML::Strip - Perl extension for stripping HTML markup from text.</p>

<h1 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h1>

<pre><code>  use HTML::Strip;

  my $hs = HTML::Strip-&gt;new();

  my $clean_text = $hs-&gt;parse( $raw_html );
  $hs-&gt;eof;</code></pre>

<h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1>

<p>This module simply strips HTML-like markup from text rapidly and brutally. It could easily be used to strip XML or SGML markup instead - but as removing HTML is a much more common problem, this module lives in the HTML:: namespace.</p>

<p>It is written in XS, and thus about five times quicker than using regular expressions for the same task.</p>

<p>It does <i>not</i> do any syntax checking. If you want that, use <a href="./HTML::Parser.html">HTML::Parser</a>. Instead it merely applies the following rules:</p>

<ol>

<li><p>Anything that looks like a tag, or group of tags will be replaced with a single space character. Tags are considered to be anything that starts with a <code>&lt;</code> and ends with a <code>&gt;</code>; with the caveat that a <code>&gt;</code> character may appear in either of the following without ending the tag:</p>

<dl>

<dt id="Quote">Quote</dt>
<dd>

<p>Quotes are considered to start with either a <code>&#39;</code> or a <code>&quot;</code> character, and end with a matching character <i>not</i> preceded by an even number or escaping slashes (i.e. <code>\&quot;</code> does not end the quote but <code>\\\\&quot;</code> does).</p>

</dd>
<dt id="Comment">Comment</dt>
<dd>

<p>If the tag starts with an exclamation mark, it is assumed to be a declaration or a comment. Within such tags, <code>&gt;</code> characters do not end the tag if they appear within pairs of double dashes (e.g. <code>&lt;!-- &lt;a href=&quot;old.htm&quot;&gt;old page&lt;/a&gt; --&gt;</code> would be stripped completely). No parsing for quotes is performed within comments, so for instance <code>&lt;!-- comment with both &#39; quote types &quot; --&gt;</code> would be entirely stripped.</p>

</dd>
</dl>

</li>
<li><p>Anything that appears between tags which we term <i>strip tags</i> is removed. By default, these tags are <code>title</code>, <code>script</code>, <code>style</code> and <code>applet</code>.</p>

</li>
</ol>

<p>HTML::Strip maintains state between calls, so you can parse a document in chunks should you wish. If a call to <code>parse()</code> ends half-way through a tag, quote or comment; the next call to <code>parse()</code> expects its input to carry on from that point.</p>

<p>If this is not the behaviour you want, you can either call <code>eof()</code> between calls to <code>parse()</code>, or set <code>auto_reset</code> to true (either on the constructor or with <code>set_auto_reset</code>) so that the parser will reset after each call.</p>

<h2 id="METHODS">METHODS</h2>

<dl>

<dt id="new()"><a id="new"></a>new()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Constructor. Can optionally take a hash of settings (with keys corresponding to the <code>set_</code> methods below).</p>

<p>Example:</p>

<pre><code> my $hs = HTML::Strip-&gt;new(
     striptags   =&gt; [ &#39;script&#39;, &#39;iframe&#39; ],
     emit_spaces =&gt; 0
 );</code></pre>

</dd>
<dt id="parse()"><a id="parse"></a>parse()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Takes a string as an argument, returns it stripped of HTML.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="eof()"><a id="eof"></a>eof()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Resets the current state information, ready to parse a new block of HTML.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="clear_striptags()"><a id="clear_striptags"></a>clear_striptags()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Clears the current set of strip tags.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="add_striptag()"><a id="add_striptag"></a>add_striptag()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Adds the string passed as an argument to the current set of strip tags.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="set_striptags()"><a id="set_striptags"></a>set_striptags()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Takes a reference to an array of strings, which replace the current set of strip tags.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="set_emit_spaces()"><a id="set_emit_spaces"></a>set_emit_spaces()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Takes a boolean value. If set to false, HTML::Strip will not attempt any conversion of tags into spaces. Set to true by default.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="set_emit_newlines()"><a id="set_emit_newlines"></a>set_emit_newlines()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Takes a boolean value. If set to true, HTML::Strip will output newlines after <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;p&gt;</code> tags. Set to false by default.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="set_decode_entities()"><a id="set_decode_entities"></a>set_decode_entities()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Takes a boolean value. If set to false, HTML::Strip will not decode HTML entities. Set to true by default.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="filter_entities()"><a id="filter_entities"></a>filter_entities()</dt>
<dd>

<p>If HTML::Entities is available, this method behaves just like invoking HTML::Entities::decode_entities, except that it respects the current setting of &#39;decode_entities&#39;.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="set_filter()"><a id="set_filter"></a>set_filter()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Sets a filter to be applied after tags were stripped. It may accept the name of a method (like &#39;filter_entities&#39;) or a code ref. By default, its value is &#39;filter_entities&#39; if HTML::Entities is available or <code>undef</code> otherwise.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="set_auto_reset()"><a id="set_auto_reset"></a>set_auto_reset()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Takes a boolean value. If set to true, <code>parse</code> resets after each call (equivalent to calling <code>eof</code>). Otherwise, the parser remembers its state from one call to <code>parse</code> to another, until you call <code>eof</code> explicitly. Set to false by default.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="set_debug()"><a id="set_debug"></a>set_debug()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Outputs extensive debugging information on internal state during the parse. Not intended to be used by anyone except the module maintainer.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="decode_entities()"><a id="decode_entities"></a>decode_entities()</dt>
<dd>

</dd>
<dt id="filter()"><a id="filter"></a>filter()</dt>
<dd>

</dd>
<dt id="auto_reset()"><a id="auto_reset"></a>auto_reset()</dt>
<dd>

</dd>
<dt id="debug()"><a id="debug"></a>debug()</dt>
<dd>

<p>Readonly accessors for their respective settings.</p>

</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="LIMITATIONS">LIMITATIONS</h2>

<dl>

<dt id="Whitespace">Whitespace</dt>
<dd>

<p>Despite only outputting one space character per group of tags, and avoiding doing so when tags are bordered by spaces or the start or end of strings, HTML::Strip can often output more than desired; such as with the following HTML:</p>

<pre><code> &lt;h1&gt; HTML::Strip &lt;/h1&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;em&gt; &lt;strong&gt; fast, and brutal &lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</code></pre>

<p>Which gives the following output:</p>

<p><code>&nbsp;HTML::Strip&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;fast, and brutal&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</code></p>

<p>Thus, you may want to post-filter the output of HTML::Strip to remove excess whitespace (for example, using <code>tr/ / /s;</code>). (This has been improved since previous releases, but is still an issue)</p>

</dd>
<dt id="HTML-Entities"><a id="HTML"></a>HTML Entities</dt>
<dd>

<p>HTML::Strip will only attempt decoding of HTML entities if <a href="./HTML::Entities.html">HTML::Entities</a> is installed.</p>

</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="EXPORT">EXPORT</h2>

<p>None by default.</p>

<h1 id="AUTHOR">AUTHOR</h1>

<p>Alex Bowley &lt;kilinrax@cpan.org&gt;</p>

<h1 id="SEE-ALSO"><a id="SEE"></a>SEE ALSO</h1>

<p><a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/perl">perl</a>, <a href="./HTML::Parser.html">HTML::Parser</a>, <a href="./HTML::Entities.html">HTML::Entities</a></p>

<h1 id="LICENSE">LICENSE</h1>

<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.</p></div>

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